That's right, because the customer file is the head office table, and the sites are children of the customer file.

How do I get around this ?

>As I said in the previous message, you have duplicates in the customers or/and sites tables.
>
>>
>>I take your advice on board, thx
>>
>>but I only have 4 records in LINEMARKINGHEAD, but the cursor has 39 records in it?
>>
>>>It's better to use JOINs and formatimg to make your query readable
>>>

>>>SELECT linemarkinghead.icustno, customers.ccompany, sites.name ;
>>>	FROM linemarkinghead ;
>>>		JOIN customers ON linemarkinghead.icustno = customers.icustno ;
>>>		JOIN sites ON linemarkinghead.siteno = sites.code ;
>>>	INTO CURSOR tmp
>>>

>>>
>>>The only way you get more records by adding joins, if there're duplicate icustno in customers or/and code in sites.
>>>